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Theatre and Performance in Small Nations
Arguing that the cultures of small nations offer vital insights into the way people relate to national identity in a globalized world, Theatre and Performance in Small Nations features an array of case studies that examine the relationships between theater, performance, identity, and the nation. These contributions cover a wide range of national contexts, including small “stateless” nations such as Catalonia, Scotland, and Wales; First Nations such as indigenous Australia and the Latino United States; and geographically enormous nations whose relationships to powerful neighbors radically affect their sense of cultural autonomy
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Steve Blandford
Introduction
Steve Blandford
1. Location, Location, Location: Plays and Realities: Living Between the Pre-modern and the Postmodern in Irish Theatre
Cathy Leeney
2. Processes and Interactive Events: Theatre and Scottish Devolution
Ian Brown
3. Theatre and Performance in a Devolved Wales
Steve Blandford
4. Contemporary Catalan Theatre and Identity: The Haunted Mirrors of Catalan Directors’ Shakespeares
Helena Buffery
5. Tales from the Wild East
Goran Stefanovski
6. A National Theatre in New Zealand? Why/Not?
Sharon Mazer
7. Between Pride and Shame: A Dialogic Consideration of Honour Bound and Reconciliation! What’s the Story? in Pursuit of an Australian National Identity
Rea Dennis
8. Under the Radar: Latin@/Hispanic Theatre in North Texas
Teresa Marrero
9. Challenging Racial Categorisation Through Theatre: English-language Theatre in Malaysia
Susan Philip
10. From Springtime Erotics to Micro-nationalism: Altering Landscapes and Sentiments of the Assamese Bihu dance in North-east India
Aparna Sharma
Index